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...media reports of the Virginia Tech shootings have cast attention on the ethnicity of killer Seung-Hui Cho, a South Korean immigrant, some students are worried that the events might fuel a backlash against other Asian Americans. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the Virginia Tech community first and foremost. Beyond that, a lot of us were cognizant that there could be backlash, some even feared physical backlash, for Asians and Asian Americans in the rest of the country,” said Edward H. Thai ’07, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian...
...Beautiful and achingly sad, the tolling bell and the disappearing balloons and the mass silence marked one week since the murder of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech. For eight long minutes the ceremony continued, each balloon finally evaporating in the bleached margin between sun and sky. Finally, flights of orange and crimson balloons swirled up and away and dwindled to pinpoints...
...press did get the message that they needed to back off," said R. Baldwin Lloyd, a local clergyman long associated with the Virginia Tech community. "But some were overbearing and too anxious to get the story, and not sensitive to what was happening to people." Lloyd said even prayer groups had been interrupted by television cameras during the saturation coverage of last week...
...shock wore off, and the adrenaline drained away, the strain of being patient and resourceful and strong has begun to wear on people. "All the public mourning seemed to delay the private mourning," said Robert Trent, a professor at nearby Radford College, who sang with his Virginia Tech friends in the church choir Sunday. "People put on a brave face, and it's reasonable that they would react that way. But now it hits them, and they should be allowed to have these private moments...
When Kim Yang Soon, 85, first laid eyes on the Virginia Tech shooter while watching television in her home, a one-room apartment inside a converted greenhouse about 20 miles west of the South Korean capital Seoul, she hoped the young Asian man with "intelligent eyes" on the television screen wasn't a South Korean. But some four hours later, at about 3:00 a.m., she heard the stirrings of her younger brother, Kim Hyang Sik, 82, from the adjacent room, who let Kim know, to her everlasting horror, that the young man was in fact Korean...